CHAPTER VI--THE ATOUTS OF THE TAROTS 124-174

Consultation of the divinities--Wave offerings--Prayers-- Priests and Priestess--Hermetic books--Ishtar--Rods-- Jackstraws--Rites--Graven images--Divining arrows-- L'Ombre--Egyptian gods on the cards--Number One--The Pagat--Quotation--Baton de Jacob--Meaning of Rod--Choice of the boy--Lottery Chart--Aleph--Meaning--Bohas and Jakin--Initiation of youth--Tablets of fate--Korean superstitions--Fringes of temple--Numbers or letters-- Number Two--La Papesse--Isis--Emblems--Qualities--Eve-- Derivation of name--de Gebelin--Juno--Emerald Tablet--Mr. Willshire--Juno's worshippers--Ritual of dead--Beth-- Number Three--The Empress--Maut--Attributes-- Significances--Figure--Gimel--Dress--Girdle--Titles-- Number Four--Emperor--Ammon--Daleth--Persian cards-- Titles--Invocation--Number Five--Le Papa--Phthah-- Attributes--Hands--Fatima--Number Five's Meaning--Number Six--Lovers--Cupid--Significance--Vau--Symbolism--Number Seven--Chariot--Mystic meanings--Zain--Arrows--Marked Yes and No--Chinese sticks--Mercury--Pythagoras--The occult seven--Three ages of the world--Seven evil spirits--Hymn to them in Assyric--Seven in the Bible--Other references to that number--Number Eight--Justice--Ma or Truth--The Judge--Attributes--Tiemei--Heth--Ceres--Cups--Number Nine--The Hermit--Aspect--Diogenes--Significance--Rod-- Texts--Typical of shelter--Teth--Number Eight--Rota, Wheel of Fortune--Osiris--Anubis--Typhon--The Circle-- Wheels of Ezekiel and Pythagoras--Yod--Termius--Use of Yod--Anubis called the Lord of Burying Ground--As jackal-- Number Eleven--Strength--Mystic hat--Una--Amazons--Kaph-- Goddess Neith--Emblems--Inscription on her shrine-- Brides--Number Twelve--Il Pendu--Hanged man--Freemason's signals--Pagat--Lamed--Its meanings--Vulcan--Number Thirteen--Death--Skeleton--Proverb--Horse of Aurora--Bad luck--Its reasons--Mem and its meanings--Number Fourteen-- Temperance--Nut or Nepte--Titles and description--Nun-- Oil--Oblations--Number Fifteen--Devil--Set or Sutech-- Parents--Title of Hyksos kings--Ears--Zam--Significances-- Number Sixteen--Tower--Lighting god--Castle of Plutus-- Rameses II and the thieves--Bael--Enlil--Second Dynasty of Ur--Dr. Radau's translations--Goddess Nin-Mar's hymn-- Ayin--Number Seventeen--The stars--Dog star--Nebo's mountain--Hebe--Oblations--Gazelle--Typification--Number Eighteen--La Lune--Attributes--Tzaddi--Diana--Number Nineteen--The sun--Zoph--Ra and Rameses--Number Twenty-- Day of Judgment--Resh--Significance--Pluto--Ishtar-- Epitaph of Lord de Ros--Number Twenty-one--Le Monde-- Verity--Four Apostolic emblems--Their manifold meanings-- Tau--Le Fou or the Joker--Mat--Emblems--Shin--Gypsies-- Early Tarots--Intention of Atouts--Bible of Gypsies.